Databases

People, Place & Library Databases

Accurately transcribing and annotating letters in the Seward Family Digital Archive depends on the information our team has compiled, catalogued and preserved in our databases and finding aids. Our three databases contain information on the people, places, and books we’ve encountered in the manuscripts. These databases help us maintain a record of our scholarship – the people barely known in the historical record, the forgotten town names overtaken by suburban sprawl, and loved books long since forgotten.

• People Database
• Place Database 

Library Database

• Seward Family Library

XML & TEI Databases

When marking up XML documents we use specialized tags as unique ID's for people, places, and library items. The ID's can be found in the links below.

• People Database
• Place Database
• Library Database